London Film School, offer full-time MA Degree courses in both Film Making and Screewriting.

17-22 June 2012, La Fémis, Paris.

Leading directors and producers join European film students & graduates for case studies and workshops on low budget films.

Low Budget Film Forum comprises a festival, conference and graduate training workshop all in one, presented at the La fémis film school in Paris, programmed and organized by The London Film School in partnership with La fémis, Paris, The National Film School of Denmark and Budapest Academy of Drama and Film and dffb, Berlin.

LBFF is generously supported by the EU MEDIA Initial Training programme Low Budget Film Forum aims to provide participants with the tools to develop and deliver successful, strategic approaches to marketable low-budget filmmaking in Europe. The conference also aims to offer a high level of debate and exchange amongst industry peers on current low-budget filmmaking practice in Europe. By comparing and contrasting funding, filmmaking, distribution and marketing approaches from four European countries, we hope to have an impact on future policy and practice.

Running from 17-22 June 2012, it is the fifth Low Budget Film Forum, the first, ‘A Fistful of Euros,’ taking place in London in 2008 with the second, ‘For a Few Euros More,’ in Budapest, 2009 and the third at the Les Arcs European Film Festival in 2010, the fourth in Copenhagen 2011. The Event focuses on sharing the best ideas in low budget filmmaking across Europe. "Recent events all around the world mean the creative community need to build value. Every new Euro gets you more of a film but it loses you some autonomy and a spur to creativity, learning to work with the right numbers helps you to build a career where the deal follows the film rather than the other way around," says LFS Director, Ben Gibson.

Low Budget Film Forum features four detailed case studies of the best contemporary European co-produced films at under 2M€: from the UK, France, Hungary and Denmark. Screenings begins with student participant films and run throughout the week.

Participants and partners

• London Film School
• La Femis, France
• Budapest Academy of Film and Drama
• The National Film School of Denmark
• dffb

Supporters

• EU MEDIA Initial Training Programme

Notes to Editors:

The London Film School is recognised as one of the world's key graduate schools and one of the of the UK Film Council’s Skillset Film Academy network, approved centres of excellence. LFS offers a core two-year, multi-department MA Filmmaking programme, a one-year MA Screenwriting and a one year MA in Curating, with a wide range of professional development courses under the LFS Workshops banner.

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